Today's Digital Tool Tuesday comes to you as a result of a morning in which my patience was tested and I had to repeat the mantra, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" (and again, and again). I was creating a Google Slides presentation on how to connect a Chromebook to the projector, and I wanted to use GIFs to give a good nonlinguistic representation of how to do the steps (What is a GIF? See image below!).
I read several blog posts and did several Google searches on GIF creators, but everything that I tried would not work the way I needed it to. I needed to put the GIFs in Google Slides, which you do by going to Insert --> Image --> By URL, and then you paste the URL of the GIF in the box. The GIF creators I found downloaded the GIF, rather than give me a URL, or they just plain glitched out on me. Around and around I went, until VICTORY! I found one that did what I needed it to do.
Gifs.com. Yes, really, it's that simple! GIFs.com let's you turn videos into GIFs. You can upload your own video (I was able to do use the shareable link of a video from Screencastify to make the above GIF), or just copy and paste a YouTube video into the site and go from there.
It lets you adjust the length of time of your GIF and add features like a title.
Once you are done editing, you get a Direct Link, which you then can copy and paste into Google Slides (or Docs, or Drawings) under Insert --> Image --> By URL.
So how can you use GIFs in your classroom?
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